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AND HIS DESCENDANTS 

SOME time between 1635 and 1637, probably in the ** Second Emigra- 
tion " with Richard Mather, Clement ToplifF came to Dorchester, bringing 
with him his wife Sarah. It is said that nine-tenths of the emigrants of 
these years came from Essex, Suffolk, and the near-by counties in England. There are 
ToplifFs to be found in Ipswich, Essex County, although there has been no proof 
found so far that Clement was one of that family. One other clue, and perhaps two, 
exist, which may some time lead to tangible results. Clement in his will makes his 
** Cozen Peleg Heath " one of the overseers. This nephew of his, Peleg Heath, was 
the son of William Heath of Dorchester, who came from Nazeing, County Essex, 
England, and previously from Widford, Hertfordshire. The Eliots also came from 
Widford and Nazeing to Dorchester. William Heath had been twice married, and 
Peleg was the son of his second wife Mary. The relationship is susceptible of three 
explanations : Clement ToplifF married a sister of William Heath or a sister of Mary 
Heath, or William Heath married a sister of Clement ToplifF. This implies that in 
all probability Clement ToplifF or his wife came from this part of Essex, especially 
when taken in conjuncdon with the fact that the name ** ToplifF" was to be found in 
Ipswich at the dme. 

The second clue has come through a query in the *• Transcript," as to why Sarah 
ToplifF was buried out in Dorchester in the lot that belonged to Thomas Trott, and 
not with her husband, Clement, who was buried near by. The querist wishes to 
know if Sarah was a sister of Thomas Trott. The records seem to be silent on the 
matter, as litde is known of Thomas Trott and his family. 

Clement ToplifF was born on November 17, 1603, and his wife during the year 
1605, so that they were no longer a very young couple when they came to Dor- 
chester. If they were married and had children before they emigrated, these had 
either died or been left behind, for no record appears in this country of any older than 
Jonathan, born in Dorchester in April, 1637. On March 18, 1637, land on the 
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proportion which had been agreed upon on May 9, 1636. According to this agree- 
ment, "every hoame lott that hath a dwelling house thereon or inhabitant incumbant 
in the Towne ; he or it shall haue one acre to the sayd lott, and other hoame lotts halfe 
an acre ; then the remayner to belong to the same planters by this rule. Three fifts to 
mens estates owne p'p' as usual they have burden ; and 2 fifts to p'sons equally thus 
Counted. All men with their wiues and Children in the Plantation vnder their 
p'sent gouerment in famalyes to be Counted ; Provided allowance be made where 
house and lotts are intire allbeit for p'sent they haue no p'sons incumbant according 
to the p' portion of such as Lately did inhabit them." ^ In accordance with this rule 
♦' 2 akers, i quarter and 4 rodes " were set off to "Good : Topley," and the same 
amount in the " Rest of the Division of other land," that is land neither on the 
" Neck " nor in the ♦' Cowes Pasture." Clement Topliff's "hoame lott" was near 
what is now Columbia Road in Dorchester. The new street which was laid out 
through the old farm is called "Topliff" after the first settler. 

Clement Topliff's public life in the town was that of a man of good standing 
with his neighbors, but of no great prominence. He was admitted to membership in 
the First Church on June 12, 1639, and the following year, on May 13th, he was 
made a freeman. For fourteen years he took no more part in town affairs than 
the ordinary citizen, and when in 1653 he was mentioned in the town books once 
more, it was merely to enter into an agreement with the selectmen for the care of 
the Cattle of the town. The agreement is interesting as a picture of one phase of 
farming in those early days, and shows how laboriously and with what care for detail 
the forefathers planned their lives. Perhaps all these customs, which seem strange 
and clumsy to us now, were the adaptation of old country ways to the conditions of 
land so lately cleared. 

*^ Dorchester this 28 day of the i : mo: jj. It is covenanted and agreed by and 
betweene the Select men of the said towne for this p'sent yeare for and in behalfe of 
the said towne. And Clement Topley and Beniamyn Bates both of Dorchester That the 
said Clement and Beniamyn shall and will keepe the Cowes and heffers that shalbe 
comitted vnto them this p'sent yeare in the ordinary Cow pastuer or Cow waike 
after the vsual manii from the 15 day of the second moneth next insueing vntill the 28 
day of the eight moneth following. The said keepers one of them to blow their home 
at or before halfe an hower by sonne in the morneing at the meeting howse and so along 

1 Dorchester Town Records, p. 43. 
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CLEMENT TOPLIFF 



the town vntill he com to John Minots and euy man on the north side of the towne to 
bring their cowes before the meeting howse within halfe an hower after the home 
is their blowed. 

"And that keeper there to take them at the same tyme, the other keeper at or 
abought the same tyme to goe vp to the burying place and take the Cowes and such 
other cattell not p'hibited that ar their left for them aney wheare abought the Commons 
betweene Augustin Clements lote which was M' Makepeace and the said buring 
place so that both keepers may meete on the Rockey hill or at the gat by John Minots 
to goe forth with the whole heard and not to stay beyound their appointed tyme of 
going forth Vidclt one hower and halfe after the sonne riseing. And bring those 
cowes that belong to the back side of the towne agayne to Lawrence Smith barne. 

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*♦ And for their faithfullnesse and care herein The said Clement Toply and Beniamyn 
Bates — is to haue — thirty poundes to bee p'portioned with the Bull money vpon soe 
maney Cattell as ar put to heard on goeing vpon the Comons or Cowe walke afore- 
said, one thurd there of to be paid them at or abought the begining or first putting 
forth, on other thurd at halfe the tyme the remaynder at the End of the sayd tyme. 



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** Robert Howard in the name of the rest of the Select men." * 

During the same year, 1653, the Town for various purposes disbursed "40"' 
14' 1 1"*," one item of which was "for making the fence by Goodman Toplens 
076."! 

Mr. ToplifF held but one other office in the town, that of fence viewer of the 
twenty acre lots in 1656, in company with Thomas Sweft. He was one of 
the signers of the Thompson's Island agreement in 164 1. 

Clement ToplifF died December 24, 1672, in Dorchester, and was buried in the 
old burying ground at the corner of the present Stoughton Street and Columbia Road. 
His widow Sarah died July 29, 1693, aged eighty-eight years. Their gravestones 
still stand in the Cemetery. 

1 Dorchester Records, pp. 61, 6a, 69. 

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AND HIS DESCENDANTS 



««Clemment Topliff, I Aged 69 yeares | Dyed the 24 Day | of December 1672." 
"Sarah Topliff | Widdow | aged 88 years | Died y« 29 of | July 1693." ^ 

Clement and Sarah ToplifF had five children, two boys and three girls. The 
eldest son, Jonathan, died early, but the other son, Samuel, lived to grow up. Of the 
daughters, the oldest, Sarah, was born in May, 1639; she married David Jones, 
May II, 1659. They had at least five children, four sons and a daughter, of whom 
the youngest bore the fervid name of Praise-ever. Mrs. Jones died October 13, 1683. 

Obedience, the second daughter of Clement, was born in July, 1642, and married 
when she was seventeen David Copp, or Cope, of Boston, The ceremony was per- 
formed on February 20, 1659, by Major Humphrey Atherton, and is recorded both in 
Boston and Dorchester. David Copp was the son of the owner of Copp's Hill, and the 
gravestone to his two children, David and Thomas, is the earliest stone still standing in 
the burying ground on that hill. It was found beneath the ground in 1878, and bears 
the date 1661. In the volume on Copp's Hill issued by the Cemetery Department 
of the City of Boston a short biography is given of David Copp, who, it says, " was. 
the most notable member of the family. He was an Elder in Cotton Mather's Church, 
and of considerable prominence in the North End, dwelling in a brick House at the 
head of Hull Street. He died November 20, 17 13, Aged 78. The stone is left 
standing to record the name of his first wife who was Obedience ToplifF." ^ Judge 
Samuel Sewall mentions him often in his Diary, once recording a call made on Elder 
David Copp. All the other entries are references to the Elder having been a 
"Bearer" at some funeral. On November 19, 17 13, Sewall writes, "Elder Cop 
pray'd for as dangerously sick." He died the next afternoon, and was buried, 
according to Sewall, on the twenty-fourth, " in the North. Bearers Mr Thomas Oakes, 
Mr Thornton ; Capt. Atwood, Mr Maryon ; Deacon Tay, Deacon Hubbart ; Fol- 
low'd the Mourners, Mr Cook, Hutchinson ; Sewall, Col. Lynde ; E"" Hutchinson, 
Col. Townsend ; Dr C. Mather, and Mr Wadsworth there. A pretty many Men but 
few Women " ^ Obedience Copp died many years before her husband and just five 
years after the birth of her youngest child, on May 30, 1678. David and Obedience 
Copp left at least four sons and one daughter : David, Jr., and Samuel, of Boston, 
Jonathan of Stonington and John of Norwalk. The sons divided his estate in 17 14. 

I Annual Report Cemetery Dept., 1904, pp. 188, 189. 

^ " Historical Sketch of Copp's Hill Burial-ground," Boston, I901, p. 11. 

' Sewall's Diary, Mass. Hist. Soc. Col., Vol. 46, p. 409. 

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Savage adds a daughter, Sarah, and the fact that the first child was a son, David, who 
died when very young. The gravestone mentions Thomas in addition. 

Patience, the youngest daughter of Clement ToplifF, was born in July, 1 644. She 
married, March 27, 1667, Nathaniel Holmes of Roxbury. They had eleven children. 

She died March 11, 1697. 

Clement ToplifF was a well-to-do man for his time, as his inventory proves ; he 
was also a loving husband and father, as his will shows vividly. It is a very individual 
will, and is apparently so characteristic of the man, that it would be valuable for that 
reason, if no interest attached to it as the will of the founder of the family in Massa- 
chusetts. The will was probated in Boston, and is recorded in the Suffolk Probate, 
Volume VII., page 281. This copy is from the original. 

" The Lord having visited me with much infermity & weaknes and I being at 
this time very weake in body yet having the perfet use of my understanding and 
Memorey, yet not knowing how it may please god to dealle with me, I doe make 
this as my last will and testament commiting my Soule into the hands of my most 
mercyfull Saviour & Leaving my body unto my deare wife & loving children to be 
by them decently beuried, I doe dispose of that estate that god hath mercifuly given 

me as followeth 

« ily my will is that my funerall expences be Satisfied out of my estate and that all 

my debts should be payed 

" 2ly I doe give unto my Loving and deare wife Sarah Toplef aU my household 
goods after my decease and allso the use and benifet of all my housing and lands and 
cattell and whatever I die posest of after the payment of my debts for her comfortabi 
Subsistance duering the whoU time of her naturall life, provided that she Remaines a 
widdow but in case she marrie againe then my will is that what I have left her returne 

to my children againe. 

" 3ly. I doe give unto my loving Sonne Samuell Toplief all my housing and lands 
lying in Dorchester or aney wher else and all my estate not before disposed, by him to 
be posesed after his mother Sarah Toplef is deseased ingaging him to pay out of it thes 
legacess following within two yeares after he is posesed of the estat or Sooner if 

he can. 

"1 To my loving sonn David Jones five pounds 
*« 2 To my loving sonn David Cope five pounds 

♦« 3 To my loving daughter Patience ToplifF which is not married five pounds, 

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allso I doe enjoyne him the said Samuell Toplief my sonn to have a dutyfuU and tender 
Respect to and of his deare mother and to be helpfull what he can for her comfortabl 
Subsistence while she lives, which is one cause that moves me to give him so much of 
my estate. 

**4ly My will is that my Loving Sonn Samuell Toplef be and I doe make him 
my Soil Excutor 

** Lastly I doe make my two loving frends John Minott and my Cosen Peleg 
Heath to be my Over Seer's of this my last will and testament. Dated the twenty 
first of January one thousand six hundred sixty & six 

** Clement Toplif." 
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** Samuell Procter " 

"Thomas Davenport" 

(Probated February 14, 1672) 

*«An Inventory of the Lands goods & Cattell of Clement Toplife of 
Dorchester lately Desesed 8 of January 1672 

In primis his wearinge aparell of all Sorts 

It. a fFether bed with the ffurnituer 

It. Erase & Pewter 

It. an ould pot, tramell & Toungs 

It. Napkins & pillow bears 

It. in Books 

It. two Small Tabells two Small Chests & box 

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It. a house & Barn & orchard 

It. a plowinge land three akers 

It. Pasture land three akers 

It. Six akers of Salt Marsh 

It. Eleven akers in Comon 

It. Horses, Sheep, Cattell & Swine 

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It Dew from David Jones fFor Barly and weate lent 

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Children of Clement and Sarah Topliff 

i. Jonathan, b. April, 1637; probably died early, 

ii. Sarah, b. May, 1639; d. October 13, 1683. 

iii. Obedience, b. July, 1642; d. May 30, 1678. 

iv. Patience, b. July, 1644; d. March 11, 1696. 

V. Samuel, b. May 7, 1646; d. October 12, 1722. 

Samuel* Topliff, the only one of Clement ToplifF's sons who grew to manhood 
and married, so far as is known, was the youngest child, and was born May 7, 1646. 
He was a more prominent man than his father, partly, perhaps, from his natural abili- 
ties, and partly because his father left him very well-to-do. Clement ToplifF's estate 
footed up to _;^2 86, of which only fifteen pounds had to be paid out by Samuel to his 
brothers-in-law. The main estate or homestead was on Bowdoin Street,^ and included 
the land on which St. Mary's Church stood in 1859. Mr. Orcutt, in his *• Good 
Old Dorchester," described him as ** prominent in Church and town aiFairs. He was 
elected elder in 1692, and presiding elder in 1701, — which latter office he retained 
until his death. He filled every town office from Constable to Selectman, including 
that of town clerk. He was one of the * twenty proprietors ' * incorporated into a 
distinct body with power to lay out and fell land,' etc., in the grant known as the 
* Ponkapoag Plantation.' The records of the first Church bear ample evidence 
of his activity and zeal." ^ 

Hopestill Clap and Samuel Topliff were elected constables in March, 1678/9, 
and from that time Samuel Topliff rose year by year through the list of town offices. 
In 1 68 1 he was tything-man ; in 1686 he was rater, or, as the records put it, 
'* Ratter " ; in 1690 he was sealer of weights and measures. The Dorchester 
records give a full description of his receiving this last office ; '* the : 13"" feb'^ ; i6§5- 
there was delivered to Sarg"' Samuel TopIifF, the weights and mesurs, that weir the 
towns Standerds, to trye weights and mesurs by." There were two kinds of 
weights and one set of measures. The first set were bell-shaped, and included 
56, 28, 14, 7, 4, and 2 pound weights; the second were "flat brass weights " of 
*» yi» %* and yi pounds, and i, i/^, y^, and yi ounces. The measures were, 

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*' one hdfe bushell, one peck, one ell, one yearden, one eale quart, one wine pint, 
two sealling eirons." This reference gives one fact which is nowhere else men- 
tioned, that Samuel was a Sergeant in the militia company. In 1691 he was 
elected selectman, and served for two years without re-election, as did all the board 
chosen that year. He served again in the same capacity in 1696, 1697, and 1699. 
Samuel ToplifF's activities were not all turned to office-holding ; twice he received 
two shillings *'for a dayes worke schoole house," and again a shilling for *' Wading 
Election day." In 1680 many persons were paid "for keeping Frances," and 
among them Samuel, who received four shillings sixpence "for keeping frances, 

3 weeke." 

In the church his energies ^vere equally well directed. The church plate was 
turned over to him to keep in 1692 when he was ordained a deacon. This consisted 
of " 4 flagons : 3 Silvar Bools ; 3 silvar Beakers : 4 pewter cups i pewter pint pott 

4 pewter platters 3 small table clothes 2 Baskets." On February 3, 1701/2, he 
was chosen ruling elder. Even in those days, when there was much land and luxu- 
ries were ^qw, when tastes were simple, and each man literally earned his bread by 
the sweat of his brow, there were poor, whom the more well-to-do had to aid. In- 
1689, again in 1691, and in other years, contributions were levied for their assistance, 
and in each of these general contributions Samuel ToplifF gave a barrel of corn. 

In October, 1671, Deacon ToplifF married in Boston Patience Somes, a Glouces- 
ter girl who had come with her brother John to live in Boston. She was the daughter 
of Morris Somes of Gloucester, and Elizabeth, daughter of John Kendall of Cam- 
bridge. This marriage record of an Essex County girl to a Suffolk County man is 
filed among the papers of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace in Middlesex 
County. The unearthing of Patience's maiden name is due to Mr. J. Gardner Bartlett. 
This document was used in some case in Court in October, 1678, seven years after 
the marriage. 

" These are to Certefy all Persons whom it may concern that Samuell Toplife of 
Dorchester and Patience Soms of Boston have been published three severall times 
according to Order without any Opposition as is attested 

" by me 

** Rich : Taylor 

"Boston October 5th 1671." 



CLEMENT TOPLIFF 



Elder Samuel and Patience ToplifF had at least eleven children. The eldest 
child, a daughter, Mehitable, was born August 15, 1673, ^^'^ probably died early, 
though no record of her death has been found. A son, Samuel, followed, born 
August 19, 1675, who died August 30, 1694, at the age of nineteen. His grave- 
stone still stands in the old Dorchester burying ground. Patience, born in 1677, 
married Nathaniel Craft of Roxbury in 1701, and Thankful, born two years later, 
married Jabez Searle in 1 704. The fifth child was a son, Jonathan, who was born in 
1682, and lived to be eighteen, when he died leaving no issue. Waitstill was born 
in 1684, and married Samuel Henshaw. There followed four brothers, Joseph, 
Ebenezer, Nathaniel, and Samuel, and a sister, Sarah, born in 1698, who married 
John Trescott, a brother of her brother Samuel Topliff's wife, Hannah. 

The eldest of these four brothers was Joseph (Samue/^), who was bom in Dor- 
chester April 10, 1687. He married first, in 17 10, Sarah , who was the 

mother of his two sons, Samuel and Amariah. His second wife was Elizabeth 
Daniels, whom he married April 1 3, i 746. Joseph ToplifF removed to Stoughton some 
time between 1725 and 1727, where he afterward became Town Treasurer and Dea- 
con of the Church. He was a mill-owner, and the proprietor of a large tract of land. 
He bought one hundred and eight acres of the Indians, which he added to the already 
large tract of land in Stoughton inherited by him from his father. He died January 
13, 1749, ^"'^ ^^^ administration of his estate was granted to his brother, Nathaniel 
ToplifF, of Dorchester, on March 13th of that year. The inventory showed an estate 
valued at ^3102 19:0, of which the dwelling house, barn and homestead were esti- 
mated at ^2500. His fourth interest in a saw-mill was appraised at ^100. (SufFolk 
Probate, Vol. 43, p. 416.) 

Nathaniel ToplifF {Samuel'^, born in Dorchester, September 7, 169 2, was the 
ancestor of the branch of the family who remained in Dorchester. He married. 
May 23, 1723, Hannah Blake. Like his elder brother, he was a Deacon of the 
Church. He was a weaver by trade and a man of affairs. On March 11, 1734, 
Joseph ToplifF, yeoman, of Stoughton, Samuel ToplifF, housewright, of Milton, 
Samuel Henshaw, yeoman, of Milton, and Waitstill, his wife. Thankful Searle, 
widow, of Dorchester, John Trescott, Jr., yeoman, of Dorchester, and Sarah, his 
wife, children and heirs of Elder Samuel ToplifF, quitclaimed their rights in their 
father's estate for jQlS^ ^o Nathaniel ToplifF, his executor. (SufFolk Deeds, Vol. 56, 

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p, 156.) Later, Ebenezer TopIifF, Jr., quitclaimed his rights in his grandfather 
Elder Samuel's estate to Nathaniel for ^^300. (Suffolk Deeds, Vol. 61, p. 94.) 
Nathaniel^ ToplifFwas survived by one son, Samuel^, born May 24, 1728. SamueH 
ToplifF married in 1754 Mary Hall, and became the father of the only poet the 
family has so far boasted. Nathaniel, the poet, was born in Dorchester, September 
4, 1757. In 1809 he published a small volume of" Poems, moral, descriptive, and 
political^ Dr. Thaddeus Mason Harris of the First Church in Dorchester, who 
preached his funeral sermon, says of them : " The caustic satire of some of the 
pieces, the want of polish, and perhaps the ardor of political feelings, rendered the 
little book rather unpopular ; but, when considered as the production of one who had 
not enjoyed the advantages of education, and written after he was fifty years old, it 
will be allowed no inconsiderable merit. — The Hymn which he composed, and 
' which was sung at the dedication of the new meeting house in the first parish in 
Dorchester, has been printed, as have one or two other occasional pieces." ^ 

Elder Samuel ToplifF's tenth child, Samuel* {Samuel'''), was born in Dorchester 
May 30, 1695. He married, February 8, 171 5, Hannah Trescott. After the birth 
of their fifth child, Clement, they moved to Milton, where they remained until about 
1736. In 1 729 Hannah was deeded her father's estate in Dorchester, and later Eben- 
ezer Trescott sold his father's lands in Milton to his brother-in-law Samuel ToplifF for 
^600.^ Samuel migrated to Lebanon, Connecticut, and again in 1740 to Willing- 
ton in the same State, where he died in 1754. -^^ ^'^^ vlWlz children, three of 
whom were sons who reached mature years and had children. By far the largest 
branch of the family is descended from the Connecticut hne. Samuel ToplifF's 
youngest sister and her husband, John Trescott, also went to Connecticut. ( 

Elder SamueP ToplifF died October 12, 1722, leaving a will, in which he men- 
tions his children Patience Craft, Thankful Searle, Waitstill Henshaw, Sarah Top- 
lifF, Ebenezer, and Nathaniel. (SufFolk Probate, Vol. 22, p. 740.) Nathaniel 
and Ebenezer were executors. The inventory first shown estimated the estate at 
^^503 : 03 : 01. The house and land were appraised at ^400. In 1722, 
more lands were found to belong to his estate, estimated at ^52 : 17 : 8. Again, 
on February i, 1727/8, further lands were inventoried and returned. 

1 Appendix A. 

a Suffolk Deeds, Vol. 44, p. 288, and Vol. 48, p. 305. 

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" Additional lands of Elder Samuel Topliff in Stoughton 

" Imprimis an Additional Lort in the 25 Division laid -\ 

out to Clement ToplifF containing 25 acres at 15/ - 18:15 

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to Clement Topliff in Ponkapoag Cedar Swamp J 

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Elder Samuel Topliff was much respected by all, and is described by a contemporary 
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Children of Elder Samuel and Patience Topliff 

i. Mehitable, b, August 15, 1673 ; probably died early, 

ii. Samuel, b. August 19, 1675; d. August 30, 1694. 

iii. Patience, b. January 24, 1677; d. March 20, 1720. 

iv. Thankful, b. February 22, 1679; ^- ^^Y '» '747- 

V. Jonathan, b. September 23, 1682 ; d. September 8, 1700. 

vi. Waitstill, b. November 6, 1684; d. May 17, 1737. 

vii. Joseph, b. April 10, 1687; d. January 13, 1749. 

viii. Ebenezer, b. February 14, 1689/90; d. February 5, 1721/2. 

ix. Nathaniel, b. September 7, 1692; d. December 15, 1751. 

X. Samuel, b. May 30, 1695; d. November i, 1754. 

xi. Sarah, b. November 4, 1698; d. April 17, 1784. 

Ebenezer ^ Topliff, eighth child of Elder Samuel Topliff and Patience his wife, 
was born in Dorchester February 14, 1689/90. His life was short and uneventful, 
so far as holding town and church offices were concerned. He was a cordwainer 
by trade. On January 22, 1712/3, he married Sarah, daughter of Henry With- 
ington, who must have died almost immediately and without issue. About 17 14 he 
married Mary, daughter of Philip Withington, a cousin of his first wife. Mary 
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father, died, leaving his widow, Mary, and one son. Mary ToplifF, the widow, admin- 
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Item one Horse and Two Swine 13 - ^° 

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Item his Province Bills & Cash 14 - 

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Mary Topliff married Samuel Leeds May 16, 1728, and lived until August 19, 

1734. 

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i. ONATHAN, b. July 1 4, 1715 ; d. May 28, 1720. 
ii. Ebenezer, b. September 16, 1719; d. September 24, 1795. 
Ebenezer * Topliff, only surviving son of Ebenezer Topliff, was born in Dor- 
chester September 16, 17 19. His father died when he was between two and three 
years old, and his mother when he was about five. According to the Suffolk Pro- 
bate records he had a guardian appointed after his mother's death, but the record is 
lost. The guardian, however, was probably his uncle Ebenezer Withington, who 
represented Ebenezer Topliff in the agreement of the heirs of Philip Withington. 
Philip Withington,! the father of Mary Topliff, died in 1736. His will was made 
on December 31, 1734, with Nathaniel and Hannah Topliff as witnesses. Among 
the other items appears the following : " It. I give to my Grandson Ebenezer 
Topliff an equal share of Moveables with the Rest of my Children and Twenty 
& five pounds in Province Bills or the value thereof as aforef'' in full of his portion 

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portion was also divided. (SufFolk County Probate, Vol. 33, p. 41.) On May 29, 
1744, Ebenezer ToplifF married Priscilla, daughter of James and Priscilla Foster of 
Dorchester. 1 She was born November 18, 1722. Ebenezer was a rolling stone, 
and lived in Weymouth, 1745, in Boston from 1748 to 1762, in Milton about 
1776, and at last settled in Stoughton in 1779. He was chiefly renowned in that 
town for having owned the first "chaise." He was in the Dorchester Company 
under Captain Robert Oliver in 1743, on duty at Castle William, now Fort 
Independence. 

Priscilla ToplifF was buried in the old cemetery at the South end of Boston Com- 
mon, near the Boylston Street Mall. The stone reads as follows : 

" Here lies buried the remains of Mrs Priscilla Topliff the consort of 
Mr Ebenezer Topliff, who died July 21^^ 1772 in the 49^!' year of her age 

" Blessed are the dead that praise 
thier maker with thier breath 
Until thier life is lost in death." 

Ebenezer took for his second wife Abigail, the widow of " William Shaller, the 
great rattle-snake killer." She was Abigail Crane of Milton, and had married Wil- 
liam Shaller about 1770. Ebenezer ToplifF died on September 24, 1795, and his 
widow survived him thirty-one years. She died June z8, 1830, aged one hundred 
years, ten months, and one day. ** To her home on the Centennial anniversary of 
her birth came the Rev** Samuel Gile from Milton to celebrate the occurrence with 
appropriate exhortation and prayer." 

Ebenezer and Priscilla Foster had eight children ; the eldest, Mary, and the fourth, 
Foster, died early. Of the five other children, James, Anna, Foster, Ebenezer, 
and Abigail, nothing is known. 

Children of Ebenezer and Priscilla Topliff 
i. Mary, b. May 23, 1745 ; d. early in Weymouth. 

ii. James, b. March 12, 1748/9. 

iii. Anna, b. October 6, 1751. 

Captain James Foster's will mentions his daughter Priscilla ToplifF and his grandson James Topliff. 
(Suffolk County Probate, Vol. 61, pp. 350, 351.) 

Elizabeth Foster, James Foster's second wife, also remembered her husband's daughter, Priscilla Topliff. 
(^Suffolk County Probate, Vol. 70, pp. 344-346.) 

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iv. Foster, b. September 23, 1753 ; d. 1754. 

V. Ebenezer, b. April 6, 1755. 

vi. Samuel, b. May 7, 1758 ; d. August 6, 181 1, 

vii. Foster, b. January 28, 176 1, 

viii. Abigail, b. November 4, 1762. 

Samuel^ Topliff, the sixth child of Ebenezer and Priscilla (Foster) Topliff, 
was born May 7, 1758, in Milton, When he was eighteen he joined the Stoughton 
Company of Volunteers, but was in active service during the Revolution only nine 
months in 1778. After the close of the war he went to sea, and became part owner 
of the ship which he commanded at the time of his death. He had, previous to the 
"Embargo," acquired an independent fortune. This he subsequently lost through 
his mistaken judgment in endorsing notes for his friends. The effect of the Embargo 
caused many failures in Boston, and Captain Tophff's friends' notes went to protest, 
and he was forced to liquidate them. He saved enough to purchase half ownership in 
a brig, and returned to the field of his former ventures in the West Indies. 

In 1774, three sisters, Chloe, Keziah, and Mindwell Bird, were registered as singers 
in William Billings's singing class in Canton. The youngest of these sisters. Mind- 
well, daughter of Benjamin and Keziah Bird ^ of Stoughton, married, September 27, 
1 78 1, Captain Samuel TopHff, and became the mother of seven sons. Mindwell 
(Bird) Topliff' s birth is nowhere recorded, but her father, Benjamin Bird, in his will 
gives to his "Daughter Mindwell Topliff three pounds lawful money in things for 
house keeping as soon as conveniently may be." (October 29, 1785, Suffolk County 
Probate, Vol. 86, p. 612.) In 1798 Captain Topliff owned and occupied a wooden 
house on the east side of Orange Street in Boston, having for neighbors Mrs. Simpson 
on the north and William Wyman on the south. The land was a lot of 3,360 square 
feet. The house was of three stories, with twenty-five windows, and covered an area 
of 1,026 square feet. There was also a one-story wooden shed containing 180 
square feet. The whole establishment was valued at ^2,200. 

Captain Topliff was murdered at sea by a mutinous crew on August 6, 1 8 1 1 . 
The "Palladium" for Tuesday, September 24, and the "Boston Patriot" for the 
next day, contain the following blood-curdling announcement: "At Sea, about the 
month of August last. Captain Samuel Topliff, of Boston, aged 54, was, by his 

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The cook of the crew, Nicolas Jose Monterio, turned State's evidence, and the 
mutineers were brought to trial. The schooner, the "Syren," had been burned, and 
the money received from the last cargo divided among the murderers. When they 
were arrested the money was found upon them, and was seized and retained by the 
authorities at Nassau. The only article that ever reached his family was Captain 
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"Nassau New providence Aug 7 181 1 

"Statement of Affairs which took place on board of the Schooner Syren Will'" 
Holbett Master on her passage from Eleuthera with a Cargo of pine Apples and 
braze [lian ?] Wood bound to New York Remarks on board. A l:->' :. 

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" Aug 5"^ Sailed from Eleuthera one of the bahama Islands for New York with a 
fine SS West Wind with a pilot on board And on the 6"> At 5 p m Discharged the 
pilot and at 6 the North part of Egg Island bore s by E Distance 2 Leagues. Noth- 
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before was a Counting over his money to ascertain what was left after paying for the 
Cargo, the Cook being in the Cabin at the time seeing the money, and money 
being of A tempting Nature, he immediately Goes on Deck and makes known to his 
ship mates the money he had seen the Cap' have, and in Order to get the money a 
plan was immediately Contrived, saying among themselves when the watch is Called 
for Eight Oclock it will be Cap Topiijs watch on Deck, and the first Opportunity 
they had. they would take the Life of him. and Cap Holbett. who was below in his 
birth, both Equal Owners in die property, saying if they murdred one. they must the 
Other In which they Caried into Execution their Cruel and wicked Desighn. about 
Nine Oclock as Cap' Topliff. was sitting a Longside of the Companion with his head, 
lymg on the Companion, as was supposed, asleep, a Spaniard by the Name of Antonio 
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Carry into Execution the buissness proposed on — which Accordingly did by striking 
Cap Topliff a most severe blow with the hatchet on the back part of his Neck in 
which almost, severed his head from his Body, then a Cross his head — and finally ran 
a large Knife through his Neck and pined him down to the leaf of the Companion 
stripping his wercoat off of him. plundering his pockets of five Doubloons and his 
watch, and then threw him Overboard — Nicholas Zauney the Greek at the same time 
going — below to murder Cap' Holbett with a knife in his hand as he was lying in his 
birth, in attempting to stab him in his body, and Cap' Holbett strugling with him he 
ran his Knife in to his thigh which broke off quite up to the handle and left it in his 
thigh, not seeming much to mind it. sprang out of his birth and seised him by the 
throat and threw him on the floar. and was just ascending up the steps to Go on Deck 
hearing Considerable — scufling just before, and was Attacked by this Antonio — 
Lorego with a hatchet in hand which struck him a blow in his head, in which he fell 
backwards into the Cabin, and the said antonio following after pierced him through the 
body five or six times, and Cut him open so as to lett his bowells out. and then made 
a line fast to him and hawled him up on Deck, and threw him Overboard then all 
hands went to work to breaking open the trunks which Contained the money — and 
shareing it among them and taking the Coulars — and. stiching the Doubloons two 
and three together between the Cloth to prevent them from making a Noise. Like- 
wise in their shoulder Braces — and wound them round their Bodys. and Legs, then 
went to sleep, leaving one man at the helm steering — as was supposed for the 
Florida — at four oclock on the 7"* Discovered a sail bearing down upon them, and 
in their Near approach, found her to be the brig Moselle Captain Boyce of Eighteen 
Guns on a Cruse from New providence — Knowing their fate if Taken by them 
wore Ship and stood in for the land. Eleuthera then in sight, and under their Lee — 
the brig pursued after them as far as was prudent for them to run. uppon the acount 
of shoals — not overhauling her. she hawled her wind — and stood ofF — they then 
run the schooner on Egg Island Reef got out the boat took what Valuable Articles was 
on board and made off for Andrews Island — in seeing a small fishing smack lying ofF 
to Anchoir. supposed some people to live on the Island — they had but just Landed 
before they saw a man on the beach. In which they went up to him and made 
known their deplorable and unfortunate situation, in telling him they was Cast a way 
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and almost starved to Death — and desired that he would be so kind as to Give them 
something to Eat as they had. had Nothing to Eat since first being Cast away, they 
telling a very plausible Story, he had Every reason in the world to believe them and 
says to the Cook Come if you will go up to my — house with me I will send them 
down something to Eat and Drink — but on their way up to the house— the Cook 
made Every thing Known, upon account of his not having so much money as the 
rest, which he did —not very well Like — by saying if I will save your life will you 
save mi7ie — at that the planter asked him what he meant by that — and he Immedi- 
ately says these men are not what they pretend to be. thev are Murderers but two 
or three Days ago they Murdred the Cap and mate of their Vessel to which they be- 
longed to — and seeing a man of War brig in Chace of them they run the Vessel 
ashore on the rocks and left her after plundering her of Every valuable article — and 
have come /^r;v — seeing your boat a lying off here — they thought they would make 
known to you their Distrest situation— and see if you would not Cary them to Nassau, 
making you believe that place was where they wished to go — and in Case you are 
willing to Cary them as Ever you get off from the Land they mean to murder you 
and your negroes — take the boat and go over to Cuba where they think they shall be 
safe — the planter says if that be the Case I shall send nothing Down to them but 
Collected his Negroes to gether about fourteen in Number — armed them and went 
Down to them through the woods, fearing if they went Down in Open view and the 
Villians see them Coming would mak off in their boat — Caught them and tied their 
hands behind them and made them fast to some logs of wood — untill he could go up 
to his house get his sails bring down and bend them, then took the Villians on board 
and — proceeded on his way for Nassau — on the passage the Villians Desired him not 
to Care, them to Nassau as they Did not wish to go there — he told them to be quiet 
for they were murdrers and he should have them put into prision as Ever he got 
there, they acknowledged their Guilt and offered him all the money they had. not to go 
to Nassau, but he refused taking any of it. when Getting to providence — they was 
Examined before the police Officer the money taken from them and deposited in the 
public Chest in the Treasury, and they sent to jail for trial at November Court — the 
Said Antonio Lorego the Cheaf perpetrator — says he murdred his mother and brother 
about Nine months Since. Not a particle of Dought Remains but Law and Justice 
will take place and they receive that punishment Reserved for such Villians — 

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«* Names of the Villians and what Countrymen 
'* Antonio Lorego a Spaniard 
Nicholas Zauney Greek 
Frances Davamett Frenchman 
Nicholas Jose Monterio Cook Spanish Indian ' ' 

The •* Columbian Centinel " for Wednesday, December 4, has an item from 
Nassau, dated November 3 : " The Admiralty Session Court will meet on Tuesday 
which is the day assigned for the Trial of the men arraigned for the murder of the 
master and mate of the Am. Sch. Syren. — [The two men who murdered Captains 
ToplifF and Holbert on board the Sch. Syren, were executed at Nassau, on the 8th 
Nov.] " 

On the next day a fuller account of the end of the murderers was published. 

'* Deaths — Foreign. In New Providence 8"' ult Nicholas Zamry, a native of 
the Seven Islands, and Antonio Lorego, a Campechino; both executed for the mur- 
der of W"". Holbert, the master, and Sam' Tapliff (of this town), part owner of the 
Sch. Syren. The Greek appeared very penitent; but the Spaniard was a most 
hardened villain, and after abusing the officers of justice for delaying his execution 
three days, and confessing he had before murdered two other persons (his mother and 
brother !) he was launched into eternity, whilst regretting that the cook (who had 
turned State's Evidence) did not share his fate." 

The widow Mindwel) TopliiF, and three sons, James, Samuel, and Benjamin, 
survived Captain ToplifF. Mind well Topliff was made administratrix of the estate, 
which amounted to very little, since the schooner was burned, and nothing could be 
recovered. The personal property was appraised at only ^226.72, of which ^102.37 
was spent for mourning and fees. The rest, ^124.35, the widow petitioned the court 
might be given her for support. This was granted. In 181 3 the estate was declared 
insolvent, and the widow again petitioned the court of probate, this time that com- 
missioners be appointed to settle the estate. John Heard, Jr., and Joseph Pierce were 
named by the court. They brought forward a long list of notes signed almost without 
exception in Labrador, which, with some bills of exchange, were declared worthless. 
Some payment of the creditors was made later, but it is impossible to tell whence the 
money came.^ 

1 Suffolk County Probate, Vol. no, pp. 54, 524; Vol. in, p. 260. 

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Children of Samuel and Mindwell Topliff 
i. Ebenezer, b. June 21, 1782; d. December 12, 1802. 
ii. James, b. February 5, 1784; d. August 17, 1784. 
iii. James, b. July 20, 1786; d. June 8, 1856. 
iv. Samuel, b. April 25, 1789; d. December 11, 1864. 
V. Benjamin, b. March 7, 1791 ; d. December 11, 1791. 
vi. Benjamin, b. June 17, 1793 ; d. March 31, 1870. 
vii. William, b. April 3, 1796 ; d. September 2, 1796. 

Samuel « Topliff {Samuel'^) was born in Boston April 25, 1789. He married in 
Providence, December 2, 1829, Jane Sisson Blackstock, daughter of William and Eliza 
(Maxwell) Blackstock. He died in Boston December 11, 1864. She died March 
28, i860, aged fifty-three years and six months. A memoir of him is appended to his 
letters of travel printed by the Boston Athenseum. 

Children of Samuel and Jane Topliff 
i. Samuel Bird, b. December 2, 1830; d. October 29, 1854, unmarried, 
ii. William Blackstock, b. March 24, 1832 ; m. June 12, 1873, Mary Web- 
ster Stanwood ; living in Evanston, Illinois, 
iii. Sarah Jane, b. May 4, 1834; m. May 19, 1859, William Stevens 

Houghton, merchant of Boston. She died December 31, 1886. 
iv. Mary Mindwell, b. February 27, 1836. Died March 14, 1905, in 

Boston. 
v. James Clement, b. January 14, 1838; m. April 15, 1885, Virginia Walton; 

living in Arkansas City, Kansas. 
vi. Eliza Maxwell, b. October 10, 1839; m. November 16, 1870, Edward 

Stanwood of Boston ; living in Brookline, Massachusetts, 
vii. George Francis, b. September 11, 1841 ; m. February 24, 1881, Harriet 

Luella Billings ; living in Boston, 
viii. Ebenezer, b. November 18, 1848; d. November 27, 1848. 
Benjamin® Topliff (^Samuel^) was born in Boston on June 16, 1793. He was 
his brother's partner for the last eighteen years of his proprietorship in the Merchant's 
News Room. He married Julia A. Snow, September 10, 1830. She died August 
25> 1875, 3g^<^ seventy-six years. He died March 31, 1870. 

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Children of Benjamin and Julia Topliff 

i. Julia Mindwell, b. 1832; d. November 7, 1858. 

ii. Louisa Jane, b. April 18, 1833 ; d. July, 1833. 

iii. Maria Jane, b. 1835 ; d. August 26, 1858. 

iv. George Benjamin, b. March 15, 1837; d. May 7, 1901, 

V. Louisa McKown, b. October 16, 1838 ; unmarried, 

vi. Anna Jones, b. June, 1840; d. April 26, 1856. 



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APPENDIX A 



APPENDIX A 



HYMN BY NATHANIEL TOPLIFF, OF DORCHESTER, SUNG AT 
THE DEDICATION OF THE FIRST CHURCH IN DORCHESTER, 
DECEMBER 2, 1816 



Great architect divine 

Who rais'd all Nature's frame. 
Accept and own as thine 

The house built for thy name ! 
Arise, O Lord, 
Into thy rest 
And here afford 

What makes us blest ! 



Thy Temple is all space. 

But still thy wond'rous love 
And condescending grace 

Assembling crowds shall prove. 
Thou fillest all. 

Thou God alone ; 
And Seraphs fall 
Before Thy throne. 

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Though Heaven cannot contain 

Thy glory. Lord of all. 
No humble soul in vain 
Upon his God shall call. 
Where tv/o or three 

Are well agreed 
In seeking thee, 

They shall succeed. 



A house for God we found. 

And in it we appear 
To hear the joyful sound 
Of free salvation here ; 
And to receive 

The joyfiil news. 
Obey, believe. 
And not abuse. 



Here grant thy presence. Lord, 

And smile on our design ; 
And bless thy holy word. 
With Energy divine ! 
Here may we find 

Our souls renewed 
Our graces shined 
Our sins subdu'd. 

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AND HIS DESCENDANTS 



Dear Lord, we praise the Grace 
That show'd our feet the way 
To such a blessed place ; 
Let us abide and stay : 
Or when we rise 

Be so improved 
As 'bove the skies 
To meet belov'd ! 



O gather all mankind 

Unto thy temple. Lord, 
And happy may they find 

How well thy house is stor'd. 
Full chorus swell 

From every tongue. 
And grace to tell 
Be all their Song ! 



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APPENDIX B 



APPENDIX B 

ELIOT 

Philip Eliot was baptized at Widford, County Herts, England, April 25, 1602. 
Came in the " Hopewell " to Roxbury in 1635; freeman, 1636; member of the 
Artillery Company, 1638 ; Deputy to the General Court, 1654-57 ; Deacon of the 
r^k — i^ jj^ Roxbury ; Feoffee of the Public School in Roxbury. 

* Oct 20, 1624. Philip Eliot of Nazeing, Essex, husbandman, a bachelor aged 
out 22, and Elizabeth Sybthorpe of Little Hallingbury in Co. Essex, maiden, about 
23, daughter of Robert Sybthorpe, deceased : there appeared William Curtis of Naze- 
ing aforesaid, husbandman, and testified the consent of Anne Sybthorpe, widow, 
mother of the said Elizabeth, at Nazeing or Little Hallingbury." — Bishop of London 
Marriage Licenses. 

" Philip Eliot he dyed about the 22'' of the 8' month : 57. he was a man of 
peace, & very faithful, he was many years in the office of Deakon w'' he discharged 
faithfully, in his latter years he was very lively usefull & active for God, & his cause. 
The Lord gave him so much acceptanc in the hearts of the people y he dyed under 
many of the offices of trust y' are usually put upon men of his rank, for besides his 
office of a Deakon, he was a Deputy to the Gen. Court, he was a coiiTissioner for the 
govnm* of the towne, he was one of the 5 men to order the prudential affairs of the 
towne ; & he was chosen to be FeofFe of the Public Schoole in Roxbury." — Roxbury 
Church Records, p. 81. 

Elizabeth Eliot, his eldest daughter, was baptized at Nazeing, April 8, 1627; 
m. cir. 1649, Richard Withington, and d. April 18, 17 14. 



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APPENDIX C 



APPENDIX C 

BIRD 

CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN AND KEZIAH BIRD 

i. Elizabeth, b. April 29, 1743. 

m. Benjamin Hayward, Jr., in Braintree, 1764. 
ii. Benjamin, b. April 15, 1744. 
iii. Lemuel, b. September 30, 1745. 
iv. Isaac, b. December 25, 1746. 

V. Elijah, b. December 6, 1748; d. January 16, 1749. 
vi. Ruth, b. January 5, 1750 ; d. before 1785. 
vii. Chloe, b. August 9, 1753, O. S. 

m. 1 78 1, Joshua Clark of Braintree. 
viii. Keziah, b. February 7, 1755. 

m. 1774, William Crane. 

ix. MiNDWELL, b. 1756. 

m. 1 78 1, Samuel Topliff of Boston. 
X. Samuel. 

xi. Asa, b. June 12, 1765. 
xii. Hannah, m. 1783, George Wadsworth. 
xiii. Nanny. 

Benjamin Bird held land in Ashburnham in right of his uncle Thomas Bird. In 
1736 he was on a committee to lay out the first division of lots, and was made Pro- 
prietors' Clerk, and took the oath of office as such. The following year he was chosen 
Treasurer, but was succeeded in 1738 by Timothy Green. 

In 1 782 he deeded all his stock, buildings, &c., to his son Samuel Bird, in exchange 
for a life maintenance of himself and his wife Keziah, and their decent burial. In the 
deed he menrions his sons Isaac, Lemuel, and Benjamin. (Suffolk County Deeds, 
Vol. 141, p. 176.) 

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Benjamin Bird of Dorchester, father of the above, made a will in 1756 in which 
he mentions his wife Johanna, his sons Jonathan, Benjamin, Samuel, and John, his 
daughters Mindwell Parker, Mary Pierce, Ann Ireland, Hannah Clark, Susanna Bird, 
Sarah Haws. (Suffolk County Probate, Vol. 52, p. 241.) 

He quitclaims land as heir of Major Humphrey Atherton. (Suffolk County 
Deeds, Vol. 45, p. 54.) 



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APPENDIX D 



APPE 



Samuel Topliff 



Samuel Bird 
b. 1830 
d. 1858 



William Blackstock 
of Chicago 



Samuel 
b. 1877 
of Chicago 



Stanwood 
b. 1880 
d. 1888 



Mary Webster 

Stanwood 

of Augusta, 

Maine 



Sarah Jane 
d. 1886 



William Stevens 
Houghton 
of Boston 
d. 1894 



Mary Mindwell 
d. unm. 1905 



Jamesi 11 
of A 
City, 



William Topliif 
b. 1861 
d. 1861 



Samuel Topliff 
b. 1862 
d. 1872 



Clement = Martha Gilbert 



Stevens 
of Boston 
b. 1863 



Colt of 
Pittsfield, 
Massachusetts 



Edwin Arnold 
b. 1865 
d. 1865 



Elizabeth 
b. 1897 



William Maxwell 
b. 1899 



Samuel Gilbert 
b. 1902 



John Denison 
b. 1903 



>IX D 



SissoN Blackstock 



'nt = Virginia Walton Eliza Maxwell 
of New Brighton, 
Pennsylvania 



Edward Stanwood 
of Brookline 
Massachusetts 



George Francis = Harriet Luella 
of Boston Billings 

of Canton, 
Massachusetts 



Houghton 
b. 1887 



Helen Sharp 
b. 1888 



Ethel = 
b. 1873 



Charles Knowles Bolton Edward 
of Shirley, b. 1876 

Massachusetts of Brookline, 

Massachusetts 



Maxwell 
1). 1SS3 
d. 18S7 



Stanwood Knowles 
b. 1898 



Geoffrey 
b. 1 901 



Ebenzer 

b. 1848, 

d. e. 



APPENDIX E 



APPENDIX E 

TOPLIFFS IN ENGLAND AT THE TIME OF CLEMENT TOPLIFF'S 

EMIGRATION TO AMERICA 

Mr. Richard Topliff, Vicar of Aldeburg, v/id'r & Elizabeth Mason of Alde- 
burgh, singlewoman, married at Bucklesham, September i, 1640. 

At St. Martins in the Fields, London 
Radulphus Topley and Katherina Reynolds, m. May 20, 1593. 
John ToplifF, bapt. April 28, 1594; d. February 23, 1594/5. 
Francis ToplifF, bapt. August i, 1596 ; d. May 8, 1597. 
Priscilla Topliff", bapt. February 12, 1597. 
Anna Topliff", bapt. November 11, 1599. 
Radulphus Topliff", d. September 19, 1606. 

At St. Botolph's, London 
Nicholas, son of Nicholas and Elizabeth Toplift, b. October 4, 1668. 

At St. Vedast, Foster Lane, London 
Stephen Bredwell and Frances Topliff" were marryed the Twelveth dale of De- 
cember 161 5. 

Robert Cottrell and Margaret Tophff", m. September 30, 1604. 
James Merrell and Elee Toplis, m. February 15, 1606. 

At Kippax, Yorkshire 
Thomas Topliff^, b. March 8, 1590; d. March 11, 1590. 

At Kirk Ella, Yorkshire 
John Thornton and Kathrina Toplife, m. July 2, 1566. 

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At St. Nicholas, Ipswich 

John ToplifFand Margery Cage, m. May i6, 1568. 

John ToplifFand Prudence Johnson, m. December 21, 1608. 

Mary, dau. of Thomas Topliff, bapt. December 3, 1581. 

John, son of TopelifF, bapt. September 3, 161 2. 

Alice, dau. of John and Prudence ToplifF, bapt. September 4, 1 61 3, 

w. of Thomas ToplifF, burd. February 2, 161 1. 

Thomas ToplifFand Joan Mansfield, widd., m. August 27, 1613. 
William ToplifFe hurt by souldie" was buried, 1627. 
Prudence, w. of John ToplifF, buried October 3, 161 7. 

Clement Tokelie and Ann Jones of Frostenden, both single, m. at Frostenden 
February 3, 1622/3. 

Calendar of Wills at Ipswich 

JoHNis ToKCLiFF dc Stonham Aspal, 1531—34. Folio 14. 
Clementis Tokelove of Hasketton, 1567-8. Folio 266. 
Georgii Tockliff of Wenhaston, 1596-7. Folio 567. 

Canterbury Marriage Licenses 

Topliff, Thomas, of Harrietsham, clothier, ba., about 23, and Ann Bishop of Sutton 
Valence, maiden, about 23, dau. of Edward Bishop. At St Andrews, Canter- 
bury, September 22, 1623. 

Stonehouse, Robert, of Broughton Malherbe, yeom. wid": and Aphra TapclifF, v. 
about 30, dau. of Mary TapclifF. At St. Margarets, Canterbury. Thomas 
TopelifF of Ashford, glover, and Richard TopelifF of Canterbury, cordwainer, 
bondsmen. January 27, 1633. 

Brodnax, Richard, of Cheriton, abt 23, and Elizabeth TopelifF maiden, abt 30, 
dau. of Richard TopelifF, dec'?, now abiding with Alice TopelifF her mother. 
September 28, 1619. 

Topliff, Richard, of Ashford, cordwainer, ba., about 24 and Elizabeth Wattes of 
Kingsnorth about 18. At Boughton Malherbe, April 10, 1635. 

Clarke, Christopher, of Ruckinge, widl and Elizabeth TopelifF, v. abt 34. St. 
Margarets, Canterbury, October 5, 1629. 

Howling, Stephen, of Ashford, cordwainer, abt. 22, and Grace TopclifFe of Sturry, 
abt. 24. April 7, 1642. Richard ToplifFe of Ashford, cordwainer bondsman. 

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ToPLEY, John, of Boughton Aluph, husb., ba., about 32, and Ann Smith, d. of 
Robert Smith. At St. Margarets, Canterbury, February 28, 1638. 

Smith, Thomas, of Borden, husbandman, widf and Ann ToplifFe, of Broughton 
Aluph, w. of John ToplifFdec'? November 17, 1641. 

Tapcliff, Richard, clerk, rector of Cheriton, and Alice Godwin of Folkestone. 
February 20, 1584. 

Tapley, Edward, of Harrietsham, and Alice Wood, of Leeds, December 18, 1592. 

TopLEY, Thomas, of Ashford, fellmonger, about 27, and Elizabeth Drawbridge, of 
Mersham, w. of Robert Drawbridge. At St. Margarets, Canterbury. Richard 
Topley of Ashford cordwainer, bondsman. February 9, 1635. 

Lincoln Marriage Licenses 

September 14, 1623. Anthony Barker of Ashbie de la Land, yeom. act 21, & Essa 
Toplidge of same sp' aet. 30. Her parents are dead. Appln. by Eliazer 
Glenn of Dirrington, gent. [St. Botulph]. 

Richard Toplidge, of ffolkingham, salter, aet. 26, & Jane Eldredge, of Aslackby, 
sp% aet. 19, m. July 28, 161 9. 

Will of Wilham Hutchinson, Aldeman of Lincoln January 4, 1556, mentions lands 
lately purchased of Richard TopclifF of St. Botolph Lincoln. [William Hutch- 
inson's great-nephew William, came to Boston in 1634, with his wife Anne 
(Marbury) Hutchinson.] 

Spalding, Lincolnshire 
James Harcastell & EUyn Toplyfe, m., 14 Jan. 1594. 

Wills of the Prerogative Court, Canterbury 
John Topliff, Clothier, Ipswich, Suffolk. 62 Harte. 
Ellis Toplefe, of Longbridge Deverill, Wilts. May 31, 1638. Relict Joan. 

In the Diocese of Dublin 

Topcliffe, Charles, & Elizabeth Cottrell. Marriage license, 1641. 
Topliffe, Charles, of Dublin, Gent. 1664. Intestacy. Elizabeth, of Dublin, widow 
1673. Intestacy. 



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INDEX 



INDEX 



Aggar, Letteye, 15 

Atherton, Major Humphrey, 7, 20, 40 

Atherton, Thankful, 20 

Atvvood, Captain, 7 

Baker, John, 16 

Barker, Anthony, 49 

Bartlett, J. Gardner, 11 

Bate, Benjamin, 5, 6 

Bates, James, 17 

Bates, John, 17 

Bates, Mary, 17 

Bigge, Patience, 17 

Billings, Harriet Luella, 25, 43 

Bird, Asa, 39 

Bird, Benjamin, 19, 20, 39, 40 

Bird, Chloe, 19, 39 

Bird, Elijah, 39 

Bird, Elizabeth, 39 

Bird, Hannah, 39 

Bird, Isaac, 39 

Bird, Johanna, 40 

Bird, John, 40 

Bird, Jonathan, 40 

Bird, Keziah, 19, 20, 39 

Bird, Lemuel, 39 

Bird, Mindwell, 4, 19, 20, 39 

Bird, Nanny, 39 

Bird, Ruth, 39 

Bird, Samuel, 39, 40 

Bird, Susanna, 40 

Bird, Thomas, 20, 39 

Bishop, Ann, 48 

Bishop, Edward, 48 

Blackstock, Eliza (Maxwell), 25 

Blackstock, Jane Sisson, 4, 25, 43 

Blackstock, William, 25 

Blake, Hannah, 4, 12 

Bolton, Charles Knowles, 43 



Bolton, Ethel Stanwood, 43 
Bolton, Geoffrey, 43 
Bolton, Stanwood Knowles, 43 
Boyce, Captain, 22 
Boyse, Anna, 17 
Boyse, Rev. John, 17 
Boyse, Sarah, 17 
Bredwell, Stephen, 47 
Brodnax, Richard, 48 

Cage, Margery, 48 
Capen, Mary, 17 
Capen, Preserved, 16 
Clap, Hopestill, 10, 16 
Clark, Hannah, 40 
Clark, Joshua, 39 
Clarke, Christopher, 48 
Clements, Augustine, 6 
Colt, Martha Gilbert, 43 
Cook, Mr., 7 
Copp, David, 4, 7, 8 
Copp, David, Jr., 7 
Copp, John, 7 
Copp, Jonathan, 7 
Copp, Samuel, 7 
Copp, Sarah, 8 
Copp, Thomas, 7, 8 
Cottrell, Elizabeth, 47, 49 
Craft, Nathaniel, 4, 12 
Craft, Patience, 13 
Crane, William, 39 
Curtis, William, 35 



Daniels, Elizabeth, 4, 12 
Davamett, Frances, 24 
Davenport, Thomas, 9 

I Drawbridge, Elizabeth, 49 
Drawbridge, Robert, 49 

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INDEX 



Dyer, George, 15 
Dyer, Mary, 15 

Eldredge, Jane, 49 
Eliot, Bennett, 15 
Eliot, Elizabeth, 15, 35 
Eliot, John, 15 
Eliot, Philip, 15,3s 

Foster, Elizabeth, 18 
Foster, Hopestill, 17 
Foster, James, 17, iS 
Foster, Capt. James, 18 
Foster, Priscilla, 4, 17, 18, 19 
Foster, Richard, 17 
Foster, Rev. Thomas, 17 

GiLE, Rev. Samuel, iS 
Glenn, Eliazer, 49 
Godwin, Alice, 49 
Green, Timothy, 39 

Hall, Mary, 13 

Hall, Richard, 9 

Harcastle, James, 49 

Harris, Joanna, 20 

Harris, John, 20 

Harris, " Marshall " John, 20 

Harris, Dr. Thaddeus Mason, 13 

Haws, Sarah, 40 

Heard, John, Jr., 24 

Heath, Mary, 3 

Heath, Peleg, 3, 9 

Heath, William, 3 
Henshaw, Samuel, 4, 12 
Henshaw, Waitstill, 13 
Holbett, William, 21, 22, 24 
Holley, Elizabeth, 15 
Holley, Samuel, 15 
Holmes, Nathaniel, 4, 8 
Houghton, Clement Stevens, 43 
Houghton, Edwin Arnold, 43 
Houghton, Elizabeth, 43 
Houghton, John Denison, 43 
Houghton, Martha Gilbert, 43 
Houghton, Samuel Gilbert, 43 
Houghton, Samuel Topliff, 43 
Houghton, Sarah Jane, 25, 43 



Houghton, William Maxwell, 43 
Houghton, William Stevens, 25, 43 
Houghton, William Topliff, 43 
Howard, Robert, 6 
Howling, Stephen, 48 
Hubbart, Deacon, 7 
Hutchinson, Mr., 7 
Hutchinson, E'", 7 
Hutchinson, Ann (Marbury), 49 
Hutchinson, William, 49 

Ireland, Ann, 40 

Johnson, Prudence, 48 
Jones, Ann, 48 
Jones, David, 4, 7, 8, 9 
Jones, Praise-ever, 7 

Kendall, John, 11, 15 

Lane, Anna, 17 
Lane, James, 17 
Lane, Capt. Job, 17 
Lane, Robert, 17 
Lane, Thomas, 17 
Leeds, Samuel, 15, 16 
Leetche, Anne, 15 
Lorego, Antonio, 21, 23, 24 
Lynde, Colonel, 7 

Makepeace, Mr., 6 
Mansfield, Joan, 48 
Maryon, Mr., 7 
Mason, Elizabeth, 47 
Mather, Cotton, 7 
Mather, Richard, 3 
Mervell, James, 47 
Minot, John, 6, 9 
Monterio, Nicolas Jose, 21, 24 

Oakes, Mr. Thomas, 7 
Oliver, Capt. Robert, 18 
Orcutt, William Dana, 10 



Parker, Ebenezer, 20 
Parker, Mindwell, 40 
Paul, Margaret, 15 
I Paul, Richard, 15 

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Pierce, Joseph, 24 
Pierce, Mary, 40 
Pond, Thankful, 15 
Pond, William, 15 
Procter, Samuel, g 

Reyner, Anna, 17 
Reyner, Rev. John, 17 
Russell, Katherine, 17 

Searle, Jabez, 4, 12 

Searle, Thankful, 13 

Sewall, Judge Samuel, 7 

Shaller, Abigail Crane, 4, 18 

Shaller, William, 18 

Simpson, Mrs., 19 

Smith, Ann, 49 

Smith, Elizabeth, 15 

Smith, Lawrence, 6 

Smith, Robert, 49 

Smith, Thomas, 49 

Snow, Julia A., 4, 25, 26 

Somes, Elizabeth (Kendall), 11, 15 

Somes, John, 11 

Somes, Morris, 11, 15 

Somes, Patience, 4, 11, 12, 14, 15 

Stanwood, Edward, 25, 43 

Stanwood, Edward, Jr., 43 

Stanwood, Eliza Maxwell, 25, 43 

Stanwood, Ethel, 43 

Stanwood, Mary Webster, 25, 43 

Stonehouse, Robert, 48 

Stucoe, Joanna, 17 

Sweft, Thomas, 6 

Sybthorpe, Anne, 35 

Sybthorpe, Elizabeth, 15, 35 

Sybthorpe, Robert, 15, 35 

Tapcliff, Aphra, 48 
Tapcliff, Mary, 48 
Tapcliff, Richard, 49 
Tapley, Edward, 49 
Tay, Deacon, 7 
Taylor, Richard, 11 
Thornton, Mr., 7 
Thornton, John, 47 
Tockliff, Georgii, 48 
Tokcliff, Johnis, 48 
Tokelie, Clement, 48 
Tokelove, Clementis, 48 



Topcliff, Alice, 48 

Topclifl, Elizabeth, 48 

Topcliff, Grace, 48 

Topcliff, Richard, 48, 49 

Topcliff, Thomas, 48 

Topcliffe, Charles, 49J 

Topeliff, John, 48 

Toplefe, Ellis, 49 

Topley, John, 49 

Topley, Radulphus, 47 

Topley, Richard, 49 

Topley, Thomas, 49 

Toplidge, Essa, 49 

Toplidge, Richard, 49 

Toplife, Kathrina, 47 

Topliff, Abigail, 4, 18, 19 

Topliff, Alice, 48 

Topliff, Amariah, 12 

Topliff, Anna, 4, 18 

Topliff, Anna, 47 

Topliff, Anna Jones, 4, 26 

Topliff, Benjamin, 4, 24, 25, 26 

Topliff, Clement, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 

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Topliff, Ebenezer, 4, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 
Topliff, Ebenezer, 25, 43 
Topliff, Ebenezer, Jr., 4, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19 
Topliff, Eliza Maxwell, 25, 43 
Topliff, Elizabeth, 49 
Topliff, Foster, 4, 18, 19 
Topliff, Frances, 47 
Topliff, Francis, 47 
Topliff, George Benjamin, 4, 26 
Topliff, George Francis, 25, 43 
Topliff, Hannah, 16 
Topliff, Harriet Luella, 25, 43 
Topliff, Helen Sharp, 43 
Topliff, James, 4, 18, 24, 25 
Topliff, James Clement, 25, 43 
Topliff, Jane Sisson, 25, 43 
Topliff, John, 47, 48, 49 
Topliff, Jonathan, 3, 4, 7, 10, 12, 14, 16 
Topliff, Joseph, 4, 12, 14 
Topliff, Julia Mindwell, 4, 26 
Topliff, Louisa Jane, 4, 26 
Topliff, Louisa McKown, 4, 26 
Topliff, Margaret, 47 
Topliff, Maria Jane, 4, 26 
Topliff, Mary, 4, 18 

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ff, Mary, 48 

ff, Mary Mindwell, 25, 43 

ff, Mary Webster, 25, 43 

ff, Mehitable, 4, 12, 14 

ff, Mindwell, 24, 25 

ff, Nathaniel, 4, 12, 13, 14, 16 

ff, Nathaniel, the poet, 4, 13, 29 

ff, Obedience, 4, 7, 10 

ff. Patience, 4, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14 

ff, Priscilla, 47 

ff. Prudence, 48 

ff, Richard, 48 

ff, Mr. Richard, 47 

ff, Samnel, 4, 7,8,9,10, 11,12,13,14,15 

ff, Samuel, of Boston, 24, 25' 

ff, Samuel, Jr., 4, 12, 13, 14 

ff, Capt. Samuel, 19, 2q, 21,, 22, 24, 25, 

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ff, Samuel Bird, 25, 43 

ff, Sarah, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, to, 12, 13, 14 

ff, Sarah Houghton, 43 

ff, Sarah Jane, 25, 43 

ff, Stanwood, 43 

ff, Thankful, 4, 12, 13, 14 

ff, Thomas, 47, 48 

ff, Virginia Walton, 25, 43 

ff, Waitstill, 4, 12, 13, 14 

ff, William, 4, 25 

ff, William Blackstock, 25, 43 

ffe, Ann, 49 

ffe, Richard, 48 

ffe, William, 48 

ft, Elizabeth, 47J 

ft, Nicholas, 47 

s, Elee, 47 



Toplyfe, Ellyn, 49 
Townsend, Colonel, 7 
Trescott, Ebenezer, 13 
Trescott, Hannah, 4, 12, 13 
Trescott, John, 4, 12, 13 
Trott, Thomas, 3 

Wadsworth, Mr., 7 
Wadsworth, George, 39 
Walton, Virginia, 25, 43 
Wardwell, Susanna, 20 
Wattes, Elizabeth, 48 
Wells, Elizabeth, 20 
Wimes, Abigail, 17 
Wimes, Matthew, 17 
Wiswell, Enoch, 9 
Withington, Ebenezer, 16 
With'ngton, Henry, 14, 15 
Withington, Mary, 4, 14, 15, 16 
Withington, Philip, 14, 15, 16, 18 
Withington, Richard, 15, 35 
Withington, Sarah, 4, 14, 15 
Withington, Thankful, 18 
Wood, Alice, 49 
Wyman, William, 19 

Zauney, Nicholas, 22, 24 



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-, Alice, 17 
-, Anne, 15, 20 
-, Bridget, 20 
-, Esther, 20 
-, Mary, 20 
-, Priscilla, 17 
-, Sarah, 4, 12 



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